On Duty The Polish Blue Criminal Police In The Holocaust 2024th Edition Jan Grabowski by Jan Grabowski 9789653086982, 9653086987 instant download after payment.

The history of the Blue Police is not a closed and tamed topic. On the contrary, the fate of the policemen during the occupation is returning today as one of the elements of the fight for memory and historical myths, on which Polish historical policy is based. It is characteristic that the crimes committed by the Blue Policemen against other Poles no longer arouse such emotions – after all, as one might think, these are our “internal affairs” that concern only us. The situation is completely different in the case of the history of the Holocaust – the only part of Polish history that has universal significance and that arouses interest all over the world. […] However, it so happens (as I have tried to prove on the pages of this book) that the Blue Police played a significant role in the murder of Polish Jews and thus comes under the interest of Holocaust researchers. What is more, the Blue Police were an important, sometimes an indispensable element of the German strategy of exterminating European Jews. In addition, Polish policemen often murdered Jews on their own, showing great initiative in doing so. It is only a pity that in the dispute about Polish innocence, few people remember the uncounted tens, hundreds of thousands of Jewish victims of the Blue Police, people who could have survived, who had a good chance of surviving the war, people whose memory Emanuel Ringelblum unsuccessfully demanded.

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ISBN original Polish book (is given in the book) 9788381910132